Dutch consortium awarded €59 million grant in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Published on: 06/07/2017
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component.
Nederlands Consortium krijgt €59 miljoen toegekend voor behalen Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelen in 7 landen
Published on: 06/07/2017
IRC leidt de kenniscomponent en het leren tussen landen.
Phase out strategies in the WASH sector
Published on: 04/04/2017
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends.
Report on the SEHATI programme coordinators meeting
The purpose of this report is to give an impression of the proceedings and discussions that took place during the first SEHATI Programme Coordinators...
Report on the SEHATI programme kick-off meeting
This report provides a synthesis and summary of the Organisational Capacity Needs Assessment (OCNA) workshop held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, December...
Empowering local government to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene
Published on: 31/08/2016
The dream of replicating and scaling up a new sanitation and hygiene delivery model throughout Indonesia.
Shit in the city
Published on: 23/06/2016
Can mapping faecal sludge flows secure a city's future?
Plotting urban shit volumes and practices: put your money where your shit is
Published on: 24/03/2016
Testing a simple tool to assess faecal waste flows in a real life situation can be a lot of fun. The results though can at best be described as enlightening and at worst as shocking.
Accessibility of toilets by people with a disability: if only toilets could talk…
Published on: 21/03/2016
A group of gifted local performers with different disabilities made us realise that going to the toilet is not as easy for everyone as you might think.
Transferring WASH mandates to the lower levels: developing soft skills without hard cash
Published on: 17/03/2016
On the third day of the regional learning event we reflected on the field visits and discussed what we learned.
Toilets and bathtubs: basic sanitation facilities?
Published on: 17/03/2016
During a field visit we observed some seriously big and fancy toilets in a rural village.
Thinking beyond the finish line: sustainable sanitation services for all
Published on: 14/03/2016
Today we were told that the Siem Reap (or Angkor Wat) half marathon has a clear finish line, but that it is unlikely that anyone of us will reach that mile stone.
Great programmes need great organisations behind them
Published on: 26/11/2015
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically.
Can success be scaled?
Published on: 26/11/2015
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale...
On Septic Tanks and Postponed Open Defecation
Published on: 03/09/2014
This second blogpost of three on urban sanitation in Indonesia describes the mismatch between policy and practice. Politicians have set the ambitious target to make Indonesia open defecation free by 2019, but a recent visit to Indonesian municipalities makes me wonder whether striving for the end...
The Indonesia Urban Sanitation Development Program: A Brief Description and Observations from the Field
Published on: 02/09/2014
I've just come back from a brief trip to Indonesia to learn from the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP), arguably one of the most interesting programs out there for those interested in large-scale change in urban sanitation. In a series of three blogposts, I will discuss this program, its...
Improving performance of WASH actors: Capacity Self-Assessments of SHAW partner NGOs
This paper describes IRC's experience and lessons learned in conducting Capacity Self-Assessment (CSA) workshops as part of the SHAW programme in...
Capacity Self Assessments help organisations achieve their goals
Published on: 20/08/2014
Improving the performance of the WASH sector to achieve services for life requires change within organisations and sector institutions. Such change cannot be achieved with standardised one-off training for individual staff. A short paper describes our experience in Indonesia with Capacity Self-...
IRC's work in Asia
Published on: 18/03/2014
Great inequalities in water and sanitation service provision persist in the region. We work in partnership to accelerate the drive towards universal and sustainable access to sanitation, hygiene and water services.
Participatory establishment of water and sanitation facilities management unit at village level
Paper written for the Asia regional sanitation and hygiene practitioners workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 31 January -2 February 2012